This kind of pattern was called Dazzle Camouflage, though historians prefer to call it "Razzle Dazzle," and when you see it, you'll immediately understand why. The U.K. employed artist and ...

Historians have classified the invention of dazzle camouflage as a stroke of genius. On the surface, the idea of painting cool patterns over ships and making them stand out sounds absurd ...

To counter this threat, Britain turned to an unlikely tool: art. Bold, irregular geometric patterns — known as dazzle ...

But the idea behind this dazzle camouflage wasn’t completely crazy. The thinking was that the complex patterns would make it more difficult for an enemy to estimate the ship’s size ...

The effectiveness of this “dazzle” camouflage was never quite clear, but a new study suggests that these zigzag patterns can be quite deceptive when they move. Dazzle camouflage was invented ...

dazzle camouflage used stark geometric patterns to try to confuse German U-boat captains’ perception of a ship’s direction and speed, making it harder to target. But did the dazzle actually ...

Rather than fight this truth, the inventors of so-called "Dazzle" camouflage accepted it and moved on. While it may be impossible to hide a ship, it is quite possible to make an observer's job ...

One pattern was always plain and the other was selected from a typical range of textures used in dazzle camouflage: stripes, zigzags and checks. The stimuli moved either slowly or quickly, and ...

During World War I, Allied navies started implementing shocking, cubist-inspired “dazzle” paint jobs ... Conventional wisdom claims the bizarre camouflage pattern worked and helped turn ...

repainted his Chevy Cobalt in “dazzle” camouflage to honor his late father, Raymond, a World War II Navy veteran. The distinctive pattern was thought to confuse the enemy. (Rick Castrop ...

"Motion dazzle" camouflage uses bold geometric patterns in an attempt not to blend in, but to confuse observers. Theoretically, these patterns make it difficult to judge speed and trajectory.